KFI a.m. 640. You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the Iheart Radio app.

Every day, Monday through Friday, we're on from one until four, and then after four o'clock,

John Cobalt show on demand. It's the podcast version, same show.

You could air it as a podcast after four. And tonight and tomorrow,

we are going to talk with Alex Stone from ABC News in just a few

minutes because at this time yesterday, it was very exciting. The U.S. Supreme Court had voted

six to three to let Texas at least temporarily go forward with a new law that would allow

them to arrest illegal aliens. they catch crossing the border.

They have to be in the act of crossing the border.

And in Texas, the border means the Rio Grande River, which is swimmable.

A lot of people wade across the river.

And that is the main way that illegal migrants were coming, coming in. And so

Texas planned to have their law enforcement on the other side of the river to arrest these people

as soon as they crossed and then give them several choices. They could go to jail or they could go back to Mexico. And they couldn't stay.

If they were going to stay, they were going to go to jail. Now, it was a temporary green light because the law is tied up in the courts as to whether Texas

as a state can override a federal law. And common thinking was, well, no, we can't. State law

in immigration circumstances is always subordinate to federal law. Always.

And that's the way the Supreme Court ruled all these years until yesterday.

Well, it turns out that that Supreme Court ruling was undone by a court of appeals,

which is the part I don't understand.

I'm sure there's a good reason for it, but it went back to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals,

and they had a panel saying, well, no, we're temporarily spending the law.

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